OpenAI unveils Jalapeño inference chip, claims it beats Nvidia Blackwell
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip, built with Broadcom, was announced at Hot Chips. SemiAnalysis benchmarked it and reports it beats Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple open-source models, with design-to-tapeout in ~16 months.
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